Sound Evaluation

In this blog i am going to be discussing what we did in our sound exercise, for this task we needed to use different sound techniques to help us gain knowledge and a better understanding on sound with filming. We managed to use most sound techniques which was:

• Non - diegetic 
• Diegetic 
• Parallel 
• Contrapuntal 
• Sound bridge 
• On - screen 
• Off-screen 

To start with we used diegetic sound to use this technique we used dialogue and natural sound which was the sound of the door opening and also Sarah being pushed off her chair. The dialogue was calm and had a neutral tone of voice, this sound is effective as a sequence comes across rather boring to an audience without dialogue and natural sound due to it not being realistic and there would be no content. 

Secondly we then had non diegetic music the music used was happy and upbeat as the diegetic sound carried on with the girls having a conversation were the music helped reflex their moods to the audience as they was happy to see each other so therefore their moods were happy which makes the music parallel due to the mood and music fitting together. This is very effective as it helps the audience see how the characters are feeling and this helps express this.

We then changed the mood in the two girls and you can see the tension were Sarah started acting sassy were the music continued being upbeat however the mood between both girls was different, this made the music contrapuntal which was very effective in this scene as it made it more comical rather than serious which would have been a change in the music to reflex on this new mood which wouldn't be contrapuntal. 

We also used on-screen sound as there was dialogue, falling sounds and chair squeaks whilst the action was happening  .On-screen sound is important so that an audience can see the source of the sound as if you cant see the source of sound then this can be confusing in the sequence unless they use dialogue to explain what the sound is and where its coming from, so when Sarah was pushed of her chair this was important to see as if this sound was off screen we wouldn't know what was happening so this is effective when getting the audience to understand what is going on fully between Shelby and Sarah.

We also used off screen sound when Shelby walked through the door you heard her come through but you didn't see this happening but you heard it however when you heard her coming through you could see Sarah on camera as seeing Shelby at this point was a bit irrelevant. Off screen sound is used so that the universe of the film is expanded in which has the effect on the audience to make them feel what their watching seems and feels more realistic and this is the reason to why we used off screen to make it look more realistic . 

Finally we needed to use a sound bridge however we did not use a sound bridge due to only having one setting and one scene in our exercise so there wasn't another scene to be able to use a sound bridge to link the two scenes together. A sound bridge is used to maintain continuity between two scenes so that the sequence overall runs smoothly but due to us not having two scenes we couldn't show this in our exercise however we discussed if we was to have used one it would have been the music running over.